Ditching and terracing device



G. R. COOK.

DITCHING AND TE RRACING DEVICE- APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30, 1920.

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DITCHING AND TERRAGING DEVICE.

Application filed June 30,

To all 'w 710m it may concern:

Be it lmown that l, Gnonen R. Coon, a citizen of the United States, residing at Carrollton, in the county of Carroll and Stateof Georgia, have invented new and useful improvements in Ditching and Terracing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in ditching and terracing plows or machines, and particularly relates to an extended ditching or terracing wing to the front end of which a plow or penetrating point is attached and may be replaced when worn. The primary object of the invention is the provision of a particular form of ditching or terracing wing which may be applied to a plow frame or any other device of an analogous character to which it maybe applicable for expeditiously and effectively performing the work for which it has been devised. With these and other objects and advantages "in view and which will hereinafter appear, the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the several parts which will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

in the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a plow with the improved ditching and terracing wing applied thereto and'illustrating one means of rendering the said wing operatively effective.

Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the improved ditching and terracing wing.

Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section taken on the line 33, Fig. 1.

The improved ditching and terracing wing is shown applied to a plow frame embodying a beam 5 having a depending standard 6 at the rear terminal thereof and a for ward draft attaching means 7. Secured to the standard 6 and the rear portion of the beam 5 are rearwardly projecting braced handles 8 of usual form. A yielding seat 9 is shown applied to the rear top portion of the beam 5, and in advance of the attachment of this seat is a cross bar or analogous device 10 adapted to serve as a foot rest. The provision of the seat and handles 8 is to indicate that the plow may be controlled by a driver sitting on the seat 9 to guide and direct the draft team and also by a follower who grasps the handles 8 after the Specification of Letters Patent.

latentec Nov. 9, 1920.

1920. Serial No. 393,114.

of the handles 8 is adopted as illustrating as a whole a simplified form of the ditching and terracing machine.

The essential feature of the improvement consists of an extended ditching and terracing wing 11 having a lower longitudinally straight edge 12 and front intersecting reversely inclined edge surfaces 13, 14 and 15 to receive the correspondingly shaped rear edge of a plow point or penetrating attachment 16 which is suitably bolted to i the front end of the wing and removable for replacement in the event of wear or when it may be desired to change the form of the point by replacement. The upper edge of the wing adjacent to the front end is also formed with an angular notch 17 to permit the front upper portion of the wing to be pressed in close to and over the adjacent part of the standard 6 to provide for a secure and close fitting of the wing relatively to the standard. The main body of the wing 11 extends downwardly and outwardly at an angle of inclination as at 18, see Fig. 3, and from about the point of location of the notch 17 the wing is bent on an elongated diagonal line as at 19 to provide an upstanding substantially vertical member 20, this structural shape of the wing effecting an overturn and shedding of the soil or dirt during the forward progress of thewing, or while the ditching or terracing operations are being performed. It will be seen that the diagonal line 19 of the bend erminates at the rear above the lower longitudinally straight edge 12 of the wing so that the said lower working edge 12 may be extended the full length of the wing, or the wing may have a straight scraping or smoothing lower edge throughout its entire length.

From the foregoing the operation of the improved extended wing will be readily understood, and it will be seen that as the plow or other device carrying thawing 11 with the point i6'1noves forwardly, the soil or earth will be cut orfurrowedand the extended wing will act as a projectedspreacb ing means to produce a smooth and regular overturn of the 'soil onto the surface 0perated upon with material advantages in ditching and terracing operations. One of the most important features of the ditching and terracing' machine carrying the improved wing is the reduction of the number of attendants or operators necessary, the maximum number of operators required to pratically control the improved machine being two, or one to drive and direct the draft team and the other to guide the machine through the medium of the handles 8. The improved extendedditching wing is also of such construction that it may be readily used on many of the ditching machines and plows now used for ditching and terracing purposes. It will be understood that changes in the proportion and general dimensions of the improved wing may be adopted to adapt the same for application to various typesor" machines without departing from the spirit of the invention.

What is claimed as new is:

1. A ditching and terracing machine having a beam, and an extended wing secured to a part of the beam and projecting rearwardly from the latter and having a cut ting and penetrating point at its front extremity, the main bodyot the wing being inclined downwardly and outwardly and bent in a diagonal direction from a point near the upper forward extremity thereof rearwardly to -form an upstanding substantially vertical flange, the lower edge of the wing being straight throughout its full length.

2. An extended ditching and terracing wing having a downwardly and outwardly inclined main body portion with an upper substantially vertical flange extending rearwardly from point in rear of the front end of the wing downwardly to the rear end of the latter.

3. An extended ditching and terracing wing having an outwardly and downwardly inclined fiat body portion with. a lower horizontally straight edge and an upper suhstan' tially vertical flange provided by bending the wing in a diagonal line longitudinally thereof from a point a short distance in rear of the front end of the wing fully to the rear end of the latter.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE R. (300K.

Witnesses H, .E. REEVES, JAR. CRAMER. 

